Sample Sentences for
staunch
(editor-reviewed)

staunch as in:  a staunch ally

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    My twin was a staunch believer in the easiest way.  (source)
    staunch = firm
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    If you wanted me dead, you had only to say the word, and one of these staunch friends of yours would gladly have given me a red smile.  (source)
    staunch = loyal
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    ...the Tucks were her friends. She had done it because—in spite of everything, she loved them. This of all things her family understood, and afterward they drew together staunchly around her.  (source)
    staunchly = firmly and dependable
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    Like most mothers, she wielded tremendous power and my staunch resolve would crumble like a sandcastle before her frontal assaults, which were like tidal waves.  (source)
    staunch = firm
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    "That's right," said Ginny staunchly.  (source)
    staunchly = firmly
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    Well, your father's on the board of directors and Henry's one of the staunchest members.†  (source)
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    The place was crowded, still quite cold, but the sight of nurses and volunteer workers made us feel the children were safe, and the presence of other stranded souls, young women with infants, old and infirm people, gave us a certain staunchness and will, a selfless bent that was pronounced enough to function as a common identity.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    He himself maintained that it was the ungodly ways of the East which drove him to search for a less sophisticated, stauncher-minded region; though I have heard it suggested that there came a point when his native parts refused to tolerate him any longer.†  (source)
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    He was a staunch conservative who voted twice for George W. Bush and whose faith in God was matched only by his deep distrust of liberals and the news media.  (source)
    staunch = firmly loyal
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    I had the meanest old hillbilly staunchly in my corner, even if she was hundreds of miles away.  (source)
    staunchly = firmly
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    Throughout everything, in fact, Isabelle had been her staunchest defender.†  (source)
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    A race of giants had lived then, fearless men, men of a staunchness unknown in this day.†  (source)
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    'There ain't,' said Sikes, fixing his eyes upon her, and muttering the words to himself; 'there ain't a stauncher-hearted gal going, or I'd have cut her throat three months ago.†  (source)
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meaning too rare to warrant focus

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    I have no bandage, nothing to staunch the flow of blood from his calf.  (source)
    staunch = stop
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    "But we don't have a firearm," Dad said again, trying to staunch their worries.  (source)
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    Now weaponless as well, the girl just stands there, trying to staunch the flow of blood pouring from her empty eye socket.  (source)
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    I pull off Rue's socks that I've been using for gloves and press them into my forehead, trying to staunch the flow of blood, but they're soaked in minutes.  (source)
    staunch = stop
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    I could staunch the bleeding, and allow the man to be transported by litter back to the castle.  (source)
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